(debatably) Julian Beck as Kane in Poltergeist II: The Other Side

Yes she was stupendous … You could really feel the depth of her talent when she did the Manger Babies stuff — for example the charming silliness of the way she did the British one so perfectly to suggest someone like Luanne doing a silly faux- British accent like that as best as she could … Pretty genius …

Resplendent!

So this is supposed to just be if it's THE topic of the whole song, not just referencing?? …

what about Bjork? "Admiring your lava I keep calm" etc. — though I guess that only POSSIBLY MAYBE fits the category …

About the era's women: The truth is that NO character on this show ACTUALLY captures that sixties/seventies type of femininity … The show is lauded for its accurate encapsulations of style SUPERFICALLY SURE — but I mean c'mon …

He's the only one who ends the season seeming like a "pure" villain in my opinion — even REGARDLESS of whether he was actually complicit in the whole Manolo thing etc. …

Well, it's laudable that Ted decides to do the right thing after all — but he could have made that decision sooner or never strayed to begin with … However ultimately his comment to her is true — she'll get over it — & I don't think he was right for her anyway — though neither was the depressive bohemian guy of course…

I used to play that with my baby-sitter all the time … And she always won … Mean!

Nowadays it's acceptable for the same reason it would NOT have been to employ Don's pitch at that time — that is to say, that nowadays it's assumed that the audience (esp. for a upper middle class -type show like this) is suffused with an intelligent appreciation and enjoyment of these very sorts of "double ironies" …

There's been a lot of speculation as to why they couldn't have put a dedication onto the finale — especially as a Weiner-directed episode — But maybe they couldn't even have gotten it onto the print in time at that point, dunno …

I was very pleased with the choice, as a lifelong "Both Sides Now" freak — & of course the previous season's ender was phenomenal in its use of "You Only Live Twice" (my favorite of all Bond songs!) to demonstrate that even hot Megan could never cause someone like Don to be truly un-temptable … (How far we've come now…

This is rather a different topic I suppose, but the best ones were probably those ones with Bette Davis & the psychic kids & all that …

I've been trying to recall which cartoons I actually cared about growing up in the seventies (in general I mean) — & I'm coming up with:

Yes, I was thinking vis-a-vis this solo author —- as Sam Jackson might put it, "You certainly know a lot about that …"

To me it seems that the truly salient point here is that the risk Sally faces from being put in a sort-of peer hazing situation with those obnoxious girls was already a trillion times worse for her well-being than any threat she had to fend off by herself or with help from Glen from his jerk of a friend …

Well, yes, I can see that — & he's even dallied with amphetamines recently …

"Much better in every way possible" sort of goes up in smoke, however, the moment that the experience somehow involves being forced to observe strippers with the obvious type of implants dancing and prancing all along the way

I always loved that song & video because it really gives you a sense of how a Brit's obsession with the James Dean myth has a different flavor than an American's obsession with Dean — simply because there's the whole extra level of "otherness" there … Almost as if physically visiting his hometown milieu could provide…

now now megan, you weren't always so choosy were you?